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Re: [tg] a new concept idea: Swap



Kathy, Troy: thanks for those catches! They have been fixed.

Kathy: woah, I never would have seen the Mirror Beep Beep there -- that is very cool :O

Luke: yep! That's in section 5.1, and as one might hope gives Reverse Swap Around from Reverse Swap Box Circulate and similar. Also, I like the idea of associating left and right with the designators, since that matches my intuition and helps remember which is which. "Leftcrossers" is also the word that sounds most like a designator to me so far :P My next favorite idea is "ascenders" and "descenders" because the line you draw between them is either ascending or descending; another proposal along those lines was "slashes" and "backslashes".

From: Troy Welton via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2024 13:17
To: luke sciarappa gmail com <luke sciarappa gmail com>
Cc: CJ Quines <cjq mit edu>; Tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu>
Subject: Re: [tg] a new concept idea: Swap
 

Fun concept. The explanation of Example 15 has beaus and belles swapped. (Ha ha.) I'll have to think about the designators, but I kind of like Kathy's Odd Quad suggestion.

Troy


On Thu, Nov 28, 2024, 9:54 PM Luke Sciarappa via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
I like the concept! If you want the other people to adjust, do you say "reverse swap"?
As for the designator names, I am not settled yet, but I have this in mind. Imagine your box has a cross (X) drawn through it, that is, both diagonals are present. Turn your head to look along one of these diagonals (the one that passes through you). If you looked left, you are a leftcrosser (?) = [designator 2]; if you looked right, you are a rightcrosser (?) = [designator 1].

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 6:50 PM Kathy Godfrey via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
Another possibility for DESIGNATOR1 and DESIGNATOR2 is to use the acronyms of direction abbreviations
that happen to be English words:  NEWS for DESIGNATOR1 (starting at the NorthEast) and SEWN for DESIGNATOR2
(starting at the SouthEast).

>>Kathy

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 4:31 PM Kathy Godfrey <kathy godfrey gmail com> wrote:
Andy:

I'll note in passing that Example 7 is Mirror Beep Beep.

Is #3 facing the wrong way at the end of Example 16?

As for the DESIGNATORs, one nerdly thought is that the DESIGNATOR1s are in the odd/same sign quadrants on an x/y graph,
and the DESIGNATOR2s are in the even/different sign quadrants, taking the x-y origin as the center of the 2x2 box.
I'm not sure how evocative Odd Quad(der)s or Even Quad(ders) would be, though :-).

>>Kathy

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 5:34 AM Andy Tockman via tg <tg cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
Hi everyone,

CJ and I have been spending a lot of time recently thinking about an idea for a new concept, called Swap.

The current draft of the paper can be found here: https://tck.mn/squares/swap.pdf
I am very curious to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Happy Thanksgiving!
Andy Tockman
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